It’s intoxicating, not at all theartsdesk on Vinyl ’s usual thing but achieving soaring lift-off, nonetheless. Comes in photo ...

The lead singer of the "proto-punk" band The New York Dolls died on 28th February 2025, aged 75. He was the last surviving ... on former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett's solo album The Madcap ...

with late frontman Syd Barrett, who left after the latter, and most famous album Dark Side Of The Moon (1973). There is also footage of the band recording songs which would eventually feature on ...

Loved by Billy Gibbons, Steve Cropper and Jeff Beck, the Fender Esquire is one of those guitars that have stood the test of ...

Syd Barrett left Pink Floyd in 1968, but it would be another two whole years until his debut solo album, The Madcap Laughs, would be released in the U.K. Two years may not sound like all that much ...

As a founder member of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett wrote songs at once wistful, surreal and quintessentially English. Barrett's increasingly erratic mental state led to him leaving the band in 1968. Syd ...

Well, 2025 is already shaping up to be a year for new music from Gabby Barrett. The country singer took to social media to tease her fans on what's next, and it sounds like it will be good.

After the misfiring 1968 sessions for The Madcap Laughs, Barrett and Floyd’s former manager Peter Jenner had seen little to nothing of Syd (“I think he did come into our office once to get a passport ...

Using the broadest brush strokes, Pink Floyd became the UK’s first major psychedelic band thanks to their visionary leader Syd Barrett, then the world’s biggest prog rock band after they cut ...

However, fans who have taken the time to learn about every era of the famed progressive rock band know that the famed outfit’s origins started with the legendary Syd Barrett. Barrett wasn’t ...

Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett went away for a long weekend. When he came back, he was a completely different person. Sainsbury’s to cut 3,000 jobs and close cafes after warning of Reeves’ budget ...

The story of Syd Barrett is one of the most enigmatic, troubled, and sad in rock history - and so it is no wonder the floorboards that are a key memento sold at auction for £28,500 on Tuesday. After ...